The price tag is orders of magnitude cheaper than most robots in its class, which can run into tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now China’s Unitree Robotics, best known for its nimble ...

A humanoid robot has insisted it has no plans to "replace" humans, after it unveiled a new portrait of Britain's King Charles this week. Artist Ai-Da is one of the most advanced robots in the world, ...

A panel of AI-enabled humanoid robots took the microphone this morning at a United Nations conference with the message that they could eventually run the world better than humans. But the social ...

Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21km (13-mile) course. The ...

Pepper, the humanoid robot, was born in 2014. It enjoyed a brief wave of hype, including a visit to the Financial Times to meet the editor. “This is a robot that behaves autonomously, powered by love, ...

The first-ever World Humanoid Robot Olympics has wrapped up in Beijing, China, and one particular robot shone in the track events. Built by Chinese firm Unitree Robotics, the H1 humanoid robot helped ...

Robot developers keep making it seem like housebots are imminent when they’re decades away, argue Dr Carl Strathearn and Dr Dimitra Gkatzia from Edinburgh Napier University. As much as this might ...

With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they shuffled and occasionally froze for a ...

Humanoid robots swapped workshops for the ring at the World Smart Industry Expo in Chongqing, sparring in padded gloves under the lights. The showcase, alongside elderly care bots and AI ...

The co-founders, Ethan Barajas and Co Tyrone-born Jamie Palmer said that astronauts spend most of their time doing menial ...